英语北师大版必修6 Unit16 Lesson 1 Stories from History(The City of Pompeii).ppt

Lesson 1 Stories from History Listen to the sound, use your imagination and guess what is happening. A buried city People huddled together to comfort each other in their last hours of life. One person, sitting alone, looks like he is praying. The man was lying, looks as if he is trying to get up. Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule Skimming Find out “time capsule” in the text. Scanning 1.Find out the information about Pompeii. Where did the eruption happen: When did the eruption happen: Who wrote about the eruption: When did the archaeologist begin to uncover the buried city: How long is it from the eruption to now: 2.Match the information and the paragraphs together. What the tragedy brought to. People imagine what the people were doing when they faced the disaster. What Pompeii looked like before the volcanic eruption. The City of Pompeii had been surviving for nearly 2,000 years. Archaeologist uncovered the city of Pompeii. The background knowledge of the volcanic eruption. 3.Gap filling: Pliny was a Roman writer who had ________ as a young man. He wrote about a _______ eruption which ________ on August 24th,79AD and it was of Mt. Vesuvius. The tragedy had left a deep _________ on Pliny whose uncle died in the event. The whole towns and villages were _____ by the ashes of Mt Vesuvius. By 1748, archaeologist started to _______the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a “time capsule” __________ a frozen moment in history. Not only the buildings and objects of Pompeii attract the people, but also the forms of the people caught in the _______ that have ________ the imaginations of people across the world. Though the bodies of people who died in Pompeii had _______ for many years, the bodies showed their exact shapes. Today, since excavations started, people and archaeologists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ancient world. In this way, the city lives on nearly 2,000 years after the eruption that had _________ it . Task: